How to make videos?
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Another option which worked quite well (when I had a GTX 580) was MSI Afterburner. Not as good an end result as FRAPS>Handbrake, but it’s free. Plenty of YouTube tutorials to get an idea of the best settings to use as we still don’t know your display resolution.
Hi Darkman. I read about Handbrake and have used it as an intermediate between OBS and Vegas12 with the final video quality being perfect. But the audio was bad. I could not figure out what was wrong. Could you share your sequence and settings used?
I have viewed many tutorials on Sony Vegas 12 Pro with Handbrake and they all differ. Any tested settings are welcome. -
I use OBS (https://obsproject.com/) to record which worked out for me and is not that much CPU consuming as other tools.
At least on my rig.MSI afterburner was quite a FPS loss.
I do even record multiplayer campaigns without that much FPS hit with OBS.
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I’ve tried all kinds of settings to compare filesize, quality etc and the one that works best for me (with minimal effort) is just to click on ‘High Profile’ on the right side. Caveat here is that I don’t use Vegas, I just go FRAPS > Handbrake > YouTube.
I tried OBS (on several different settings) and the quality was absolutely shocking. The fact that others are happy with it just goes to show that it’s always best to just try it yourself and see how your PC reacts. MSI Afterburner was definitely better for me when I had an nVidia card; I’ve had problems with it and my AMD card, so don’t use it anymore.
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guys sorry but OBS captures only black screen. is there a special setting?
I tried monitor source and game source and with hotkey…In game mode it records the Falcon UI but when it goes to 3d just black screen.
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guys sorry but OBS captures only black screen. is there a special setting?
I tried monitor source and game source and with hotkey…In game mode it records the Falcon UI but when it goes to 3d just black screen.
Got mine working with ‘Monitor Capture’ as source. Not as game mode.
For me it’s as good or better than FRAPs + HandBrake.
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What about bandicam? Is that something worth trying?
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I found that nothing maintains the quality as well as FRAPs. Huge files though… Tried Bandicam and OBS and noticed a small (but noticeable) hit to quality. However, I’m not as savvy on the settings so that could be it.
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I found that nothing maintains the quality as well as FRAPs. Huge files though… Tried Bandicam and OBS and noticed a small (but noticeable) hit to quality. However, I’m not as savvy on the settings so that could be it.
My problem isn’t the initial quality …. it’s the quality after upload to YouTube. Some (freeware) programs just ruin FRAPs footage when you convert to a more upload friendly format (AVI to Mp4, say). It looks like OBS maintains it’s quality during the upload.
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Got mine working with ‘Monitor Capture’ as source. Not as game mode.
For me it’s as good or better than FRAPs + HandBrake.
I assume you’re running Windoze 8/8.1 then as Monitor Capture performs poorly in Win 7?
Though I note that there may be a fix on the horizon: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/fast-monitor-capture-with-aero-enabled-on-windows-vista-7.58/
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I assume you’re running Windoze 8/8.1 then as Monitor Capture performs poorly in Win 7?
Though I note that there may be a fix on the horizon: https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/fast-monitor-capture-with-aero-enabled-on-windows-vista-7.58/
No, Win7 and ‘monitor capture’ was dropping frames. ‘Game Capture’ sometime only got 1/4 of the screen …. :rolleyes: . I might try this … although I might have found something to use to edit/re-encode FRAP’s so video is ‘YouTube friendly’.
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I tried OBS (on several different settings) and the quality was absolutely shocking. The fact that others are happy with it just goes to show that it’s always best to just try it yourself and see how your PC reacts. MSI Afterburner was definitely better for me when I had an nVidia card; I’ve had problems with it and my AMD card, so don’t use it anymore.
As for OBS, you need to raise the bitrate limit to about 10000. I use x264, no constant bit rate, max bitrate 10000.
As for the black screen: I added a new scene and then a new source, fired up bms and selected this as a game recording scene. I had to use the game setting iirc.
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I must agree I had a difficult time at first as well, setting it all up, and agree on the interface and logic not being on par. But once you understand it it’s a powerfull and as I read on the internet the best recoding tool around. This mainly because of the encoders used.
Below the settings I have depicted in some sceenshots.
One is on a game capture [Falcon BMS] setup, the second a monitor [Tacview] setup.The system I use to run this:
- Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit UK OEM, Incl. ServicePack 1
- Intel Core i5-3570K FC-LGA4, “Ivy Bridge”
- Corsair 8 GB DDR3-1600 Kit CML8GX3M2A1600C9, Vengeance LP, XMP
- Solid State Drive 2,5 inch SATA - Samsung MZ-7PC128B/WW SATA 600, 830 series, MLC, TRIM
- MSI ATI Radeon R7970 3GB DDR5 2xDVI, 4x Mini-DP
BMS settings. I have both a full res 2560x1440 and a 1920x1080. Using the full res to create Youtube videos is a wast of resources as Youtube does allow a higher res than 1920x1080 but the video bitrate does not go beyond 10Mbps unless on a professional ccount. So I understand that a best compromise is a 1920x1080 res with a max of 10Mbps. See here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/1722171?hl=en
The settings you can play with are:
Settings/Encoding - Quality Balance [10] and Max Bitrate [2000]
Settings/Advanced - Video CPU preset [very fast] and crf [20]BMS on a game capture setting:
To have the correct application available to select you need to have Falcon running.
Encoding is x264 with resource settings on quality balance and bitrate. One could also downgrade audio setting if recourses are critical.
Set the correct resolution. I have noticed that different settings can not be saved/connected to different profiles. Having a seperate 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 profile did not work for me yet. Must be doing something wrong.
I also would like some help on framerate settings. As BMS does not have a steady framerate what best to do with the framerate setting in OBS. Basic idea is to be able to align it with the framerate used when rendering. I can image having the source FalconBMS, the capture software OBS and the render software Vegas all on the same framerate. Must benefit quality. No?
Setting OBS to 29,970 fps, due to render settings, is not possible by the way.
There is also discussion and a fix on Aero being active or not.If recourses are an issue one could change CPU settings and crf, not CFR and change it to 15.
Tacview on a monitor capture with settings the same as on the game capture:
Hope this helps.